| THOMASNASHE | Elizabethan author whose best-known work is "The Unfortunate Traveller" |
| JOHNLYLY | Elizabethan writer whose mannered style is called "euphuism" |
| BACON | Elizabethan author cured meat (5) |
| CHANDLER | Detective-story writer whose best-known work is The Big Sleep (7,8) |
| RAYMOND | Detective-story writer whose best-known work is The Big Sleep (7,8) |
| RABELAIS | Francois ___, French Renaissance writer whose best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel |
| BARBOUR | John ___, 14th-century Scottish poet whose best known work is The Brus (7) |
| EDVARDMUNCH | Norwegian Symbolist painter whose best-known work is The Scream |
| LEONARD | American composer whose best-known work is the musical West Side Story, _ Bernstein (7) |
| RILKE | Rainer Maria ___, poet whose best-known work is the Duino Elegies |
| READE | Charles ____'s best-known work is the historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth |
| RUTHPARK | New Zealand?born Australian author whose best-known works are the novels The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow |
| JONG | Author whose best-known work begins "There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them" |
| JEAN | French author whose best-known works are the 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles and the 1934 play La Machine infernale (4,7) |
| COCTEAU | French author whose best-known works are the 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles and the 1934 play La Machine infernale (4,7) |
| NABOKOV | Vladimir _, Russianamerican author whose best-known work was his 1955 novel Lolita (7) |
| GOGOL | Nikolai ___, Russian author whose best-known works are The Government Inspector and Dead Souls |
| MASCAGNI | Composer Pietro ____'s best-known work is the opera Cavalleria Rusticana |
| DALI | His best-known work is "The Persistence of Memory" (4) |
| FRESCOBALDI | Girolamo, Italian organist and composer whose best known work is Fiori musicali (11) |
